Ex-judge quits Maharashtra UCC panel, cites involvement of official from outside the state

Speaking to Hindustan Times, Chavan said, “I have been working on the UCC since the last 10 years. I spoke about this three years ago in Pune. UCC must happen, but there should be no fights between communities. Society must not be broken in narrow fragments.”

The committee to draft rules and recommendations for implementing UCC in Maharashtra was constituted in July. Justice Chavan was part of the seven-member committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Desai.

In the letter sent to the committee chairperson and others on September 19, Chavan said that he tried to put forth his views at meetings due to a misunderstanding that the committee’s exercise was aimed at gathering the views of people and generating a consensus to remedy the issues of late marriages, perversions, infertility, unstable marriages, time consuming dispute resolution mechanisms and so on.